American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)

The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) is a non-profit organization committed to diversifying and improving medical education, research, and patient care. The AAMC focuses on issues such as equity in healthcare access, physician workforce development, and the impact of policies on health outcomes. They provide news articles related to current health topics including infectious diseases like avian flu and COVID-19. While some information may be deceptive or contradictory, the overall content appears unbiased.

86%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This news site has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on its reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • The articles provided by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) appear to be generally unbiased.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • No conflicts of interest were identified.

Contradictions

80%

Examples:

  • The H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in a milk sample from a state with known bird flu outbreak among its dairy cows in New England. The H5N1 virus has led to the deaths of tens of millions of birds and developed new mutations that have allowed it to jump to mammals. At least 42 herds in nine states are known to have cows infected with the H5N1 virus, which has been found in high levels in raw milk from infected cows.

Deceptions

75%

Examples:

  • The article claims that most people now have some form of immunity between prior infections and vaccine protection but only a small percentage of Americans have been vaccinated at this time. The article claims that the virus has mutated to cause less severe disease but deaths caused by COVID-19 have hovered around 1,400 per week since September and peaked at 2,029 weekly in early January bringing the total number of deaths to 1.17 million by the end of January.

Recent Articles

  • Long COVID: A Complex Phenomenon with Unpredictable Outcomes

    Long COVID: A Complex Phenomenon with Unpredictable Outcomes

    Broke On: Sunday, 11 February 2024 A recent study in Nature Communications examined the natural history of long COVID in a general population cohort. At six months after infection, 49.5% of subjects had completely recovered while at twelve months, complete recovery was reported by only 49.8%. Partial recovery was achieved by 43.8%, and unrecovered individuals were at 7.4%. The study found that among those with partial or complete recovery at six months, deterioration in recovery status at twelve months was more likely among people with depression while it was less likely among older and most affluent subjects.